After you register you will be asked to
log in with your member name and
password. After you have done this you
will be sent to your file directory. At
tripod this is called your
"Homepage Housekeeper". This is where
your files
are listed. Be sure to save this page
to your
favorites for future use. Tripod has a
new
Homepage Studio which is for computers
only and
will not work for Webtv. By saving the
Homepage
Housekeeper" page and using it to go to
your
files later you can avoid getting into
the wrong
homepage studio by mistake. Tripod has
two methods available for building a
homepage. "Quick Page" is for the
preformated, no html editor and "Custom
Page" is for the html editor. There
should be one file listed in your
directory called "index.html". It will
be shown as a Quick Page. To the right
of the file type are some options you
choose. If you want to edit your own
html click on "convert" to change the
file type to "text or html" Below the
Tripod and Lycos banners, and above your
file list is a pulldown that says
"Create a Quick Page". By clicking on
this you will see other options such as
"Create a Custom page" and "Create a
subdirectory" etc. Use this pulldown
when you want to add a page or a
subdirectory to your site. To edit your
page just click "edit" in the right hand
column afer the file name. You will be
taken to the proper editor for your page
format. Just follow the instructions
for Quick Page or scroll down once and
start writing
your html page. Tripod is fairly easy
to use and beginners should not have too
difficult a time there.

TALK CITY:

It's easy to register at Talk City, I
just don't
remember much about it but I'll give you
what I
can. Also, they have changed the pages
since I
registered there so I will just give you
the key
things. Just fill out the enrollment
form and
after you submit it you will be asked to
log in
and start your page. At talk city you
can choose
to use the "Power Tools" editor for a
preformatted, no html page or select
"Master Tools" to write your own html
codes. You
will then go to your file manager. At
Talk City this is called your "Web Site
Manager". Things to note about talk
city are that they do not provide for
subdirectories so all of your files must
be in the main director. This can
become a problem if you have a lot of
files. It is possible to create subs
there but it requires the use of the
transloader to do it and they will not
be shown in your file manager. Another
inconvienence I have noticed is that
when you view one of your pages from the
file manager, it is displayed in a frame
on their page therefor you cannot use
you "go-to, show last" to get the url to
cut and copy for pasting later in
another place. They do have good
counter options and a nice guestbook
which are found in the "applications
manager" at the bottom of the page.
Talk city is a good place for beginners
to build a basic homepage.

GEOCITIES:

This one was a real pain to sign up for.
There
is a lot of information to fill out and
when you
finally get to the page where you choose
your
address in the neighborhood you have
selected,
the submit button is likely to send you
back to the same page. You will see a
message there that
says that someone else already moved
into that
address and to choose another from the
list
shown. Your chosen address will still
be on the
list. I tried to get past this road
block on
three different occasions and finally
got in so don't make any other plans for
the day you choose to register there.
They then ask you to log into your
account with
your name and password and that will
take you to
a page where you will choose your
editing
preference. The "basic editor" is your
preformated, no html editor and the
"advanced
editor" is your html editor. After
selecting
which editor you wish to use you will
then be
taken to your file manager. At
Geocities this is
called your "file Manager" and it is so
cluttered
with junk that you have to scroll down
three times to find your file
"index.html". Both above and below your
file name are a lot of button
options,you'll just have to figure out
for yourself whichones you want to click
on. I don't recomend Geocities for
beginners.

ANGELFIRE:

At Angelfire after you have registered
and logged in you will be sent to your
file directory where your files are
shown. At Angelfire this is called your
"Web Shell" Of coarse you haven't
created any files here yet but you might
find a file called "index.html" which
has been created for you. Below the
file list are your file options.
"Create/edit" will take you to the
preformatted, no html text editor where
you can write to your page without using
html. "Advanced" will take you to the
html text editor where you can write
your own html codes and text. To edit
an existing file you must first check
the check box next to the file name.
Registration at Angelfire is easy and
the file manager is clean and well
organized and easy to use. On the down
side of Angelfire you should note that
they do not allow for subdirectories
except one for images. Also the text
editor is not full screen wide because
of a side bar on the left side.
Transloading to Angelfire is a little
tricky and requires an extra step to get
the file from the ftp server into your
files. This site though computer
friendly, is not particularly Webtv
friendly in the ftp department.
I can recommended Angelfire for
beginners but it is not my first
choice.